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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Japan Herald.com http://www.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/2411cd3571b4f088/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:30 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:41:30 -0500 30 Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241418/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:39:52 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241418/cs/1/ The continuing row over bonuses is damaging Britain's reputation as a place to do business, leading international bankers have warned. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231183/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:40:41 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231183/cs/1/ Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241416/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:15:39 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241416/cs/1/ A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241417/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:26:48 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241417/cs/1/ Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241420/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:10 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241420/cs/1/ Leaders of the Roman Catholic church in Rome are gathering to attend a conference on sexual abuse of minors within the Church. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241419/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:46:50 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241419/cs/1/ At least four people were killed and six injured after an avalanche hit some villages in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Xinhua reported Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251228/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251228/cs/1/ China will considerably increase spending on health services in the Tibet region, an official said Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251227/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:04 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251227/cs/1/ The British government may soon formulate a law laying down "substantial" jail terms for stalkers. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251224/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251224/cs/1/ Malaysia will loan $3 billion to Bangladesh to construct a river bridge, a minister said Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251223/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251223/cs/1/ Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251219/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251219/cs/1/ A British survey has found one in eight people claiming to have visited ancient wonders of the world that turned non-existent centuries ago! http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251217/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203251217/cs/1/ A man who shot dead three people in eastern China Sunday has been arrested, police said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250229/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:10:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250229/cs/1/ China will launch its next generation Long March carrier rockets in the next five years, an expert said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250227/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:10:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250227/cs/1/ Five policemen and two civilians, including a child, died in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar city Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250225/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:14 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250225/cs/1/ India' joy at winning their first match on the Australian tour was short-lived as they slumped to a 65-run defeat against the hosts in the tri-series opener Sunday. India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250223/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:10 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250223/cs/1/ Many agitated parents in Britain have decided to boycott one of country's biggest retailers for selling a garment that jokes about child abduction. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250220/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250220/cs/1/ Pakistan has lost Rs.8,500 billion ($94 billion) in corruption, tax evasion and bad governance during the rule of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, graft watchdog Transparency International Pakistan http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250218/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250218/cs/1/ FC Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola received good news Sunday over the knee injury suffered by midfielder Sergio Busquets. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250204/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:50:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250204/cs/1/ Police in China's Shanghai city is on the lookout for three notorious teenagers suspected of having brutally killed 10 stray cats during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248512/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:30:22 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248512/cs/1/ English football club Nottingham Forest's owner Nigel Doughty, who stepped down as the club's chairman in October, was found dead at his home in Lincolnshire. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248510/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:30:18 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248510/cs/1/ Using a new technique, Layered Voice Analysis, can decipher whether CEOs are lying or not, a study reveals. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248507/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:30:14 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248507/cs/1/ India has voted for an Arab and Western-backed UN resolution denouncing the violent crackdown in Syria and calling for a democratic transition, but Russia and China vetoed it, saying it amounted to ad http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248501/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:10:07 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248501/cs/1/ People in China appear to have developed a special craving for Swiss watches, to go by their record sales. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248488/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:20:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248488/cs/1/ An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale was felt some 70 km from Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the US Geological Survey reported Sunday. There were no reports of any casualties or damage http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248485/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203248485/cs/1/ A cold wave will sweep China nationwide from Sunday evening to Tuesday, bringing gale winds and plunging temperatures in most parts of the country, the meteorological authorities warned Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247400/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247400/cs/1/ Two brothers in a Pakistani village shot dead their wives, who were sisters, police said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247398/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247398/cs/1/ Attacking fifties by Matthew Wade and David Hussey helped Australia set a daunting 217-run target against India in the ODI tri-series opener here Sunday, following heavy rain which reduced the match t http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247395/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:10:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247395/cs/1/ India has voted for an Arab and Western-backed UN resolution denouncing the violent crackdown in Syria, but Russia and China vetoed it saying it amounted to advocating a regime change. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247388/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:04 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247388/cs/1/ People who suffer a traumatic experience often don't talk about it, and many forget it over time. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247386/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247386/cs/1/ Bayern Munich were held to a 1-1 draw by Hamburg and slipped to second position in the German Bundesliga. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247381/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:40:07 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247381/cs/1/ FC Barcelona remained seven points behind Real Madrid in the Spanish Primera Liga after a 2-1 win at home to Real Sociedad. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247380/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:40:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247380/cs/1/ Russia will build a reliable aerospace defence system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Sunday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247376/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:40:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203247376/cs/1/ Most of the life forms wiped out in an event known as the Great Dying, 250 million years ago, came slowly from thousands of centuries of volcanic activity. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203246362/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:02:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203246362/cs/1/ The last rites of Bollywood filmmaker Raj Kanwar were performed here Sunday and his family and a few B-town celebrities came to bid him a final farewell at the Oshiwara cremation ground, close to his http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203246356/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203246356/cs/1/ Increased exposure to sunlight may help protect children from the risk of both food allergies and eczema, a study reveals. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245967/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:11 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245967/cs/1/ Actress Reese Witherspoon has successfully maintained a healthy relationship with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe just for the sake of their two children. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245965/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:09 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245965/cs/1/ Prince Harry and soccer star David Beckham enjoyed an evening at the exclusive Arts Club here. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245963/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245963/cs/1/ London, Feb 5(IANS) Actress Liv Tyler, who divorced Roystone Langton in 2008, says is learning how to get through life based on her good and bad experiences. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245962/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:50:04 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245962/cs/1/ Australian fast bowler Brett Lee has been ruled out of the One-day tri-series with a broken toe, sidelining him for around four to six weeks. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245958/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245958/cs/1/ Veteran British actor Gary Oldman finds his spy character from the movie "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" more interesting than James Bond. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245948/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245948/cs/1/ Arid conditions on Mars for more than 600 million years may have been too hostile for any life to survive on its surface http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245945/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245945/cs/1/ Bangladesh will tell the world about the genocide of its three million people and mass atrocities on 200,000 women and children perpetrated by Pakistani forces during the 1971 liberation war, a Bangla http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245943/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245943/cs/1/ As around 8,000 chickens have died of bird flu , or H5N1 virus in the Nepal's Sunsari district in last few days, more traces of the virus have been found in the region, Xinhua reported. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245941/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:50:08 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245941/cs/1/ Plasma zaps can decontaminate uncooked poultry, a major source of outbeaks of foodborne illness caused by harmful bugs. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245937/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245937/cs/1/ Heart failure may also linked to loss of cerebral grey matter and impaired cognitive functions -- which involves all aspects of perception, thinking, reasoning and remembering, a study reveals. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245935/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:40:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245935/cs/1/ As many as 10 people died when a boat carrying about 60 Dominican migrants capsized off the country's eastern coast, an official said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245934/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:40:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245934/cs/1/ Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will visit Qatar, from where Pakistan hopes to import liquefied natural gas (LNG). http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245928/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:25 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245928/cs/1/ Chinese will soon be taught in schools across Pakistan, said a minister. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245921/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:19 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245921/cs/1/ Hundreds of tourists were stuck in their vehicles as heavy snowfall blanketed Murree, a hill station near here. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245918/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:16 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245918/cs/1/ With major Indian interests in Nigeria in the areas of trade and investment, the west African country's huge economic potential continues to be a big draw for Indians despite recent terror attacks, on http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245911/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:10 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245911/cs/1/ State-controlled energy giant Petrobras announced the discovery of an oil and natural gas accumulation in the Solimoes basin of Brazil's Amazon region. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245909/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:07 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245909/cs/1/ The Brazilian city of Salvador registered a total of 29 homicides over a 30-hour span, amid a crime wave caused by a police strike, officials said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245906/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:30:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203245906/cs/1/ Former Cuban President Fidel Castro presented a two-volume memoir at a public ceremony in Havana, where he referred to the mistake of believing that with socialism all economic problems are solved, of http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244612/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244612/cs/1/ Islamabad, Feb5 (IANS) A Pakistani daily described a train that left on time and reached 15 minutes early at its destination as a "wonder of wonders". http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244610/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:10:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244610/cs/1/ A rocket slammed into the house of a journalist in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region, injuring two children. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244608/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244608/cs/1/ Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney coasted to a sweeping victory in Nevada caucuses, his second consecutive win in the Republican nomination contests for the right to challenge President Barack http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244598/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:50:05 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244598/cs/1/ Versatile US actor Ben Gazzara died in a New York hospital of pancreatic cancer, The New York Times said. He was 81. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244596/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203244596/cs/1/ Over 500 million Indians will need new homes in almost a decade, close to the needs of China, North America and Western Europe put together, as the government and urban local bodies focus more on cons http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243197/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243197/cs/1/ Diana Sanchez Barrios, the first transsexual woman to seek a seat in Mexico City's municipal assembly, says she is confident of winning. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243120/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243120/cs/1/ Attacks on Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) have increased rapidly in South Africa over the past one year partly due to poor policing, a report said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243119/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203243119/cs/1/ A woman suicide bomber from Moscow has been arrested in Grozny, capital of Russia's Chechnya region, an official said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241423/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:10:04 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241423/cs/1/ Iran's high legislative body, the Guardian Council, has approved more than 3,000 candidates for the parliament elections, Press TV reported. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241422/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:10:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241422/cs/1/ US President Barack Obama has called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop the killings in the country and step aside for a democratic transition in the Middle East nation. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241421/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:10:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203241421/cs/1/ China Saturday voiced its regret that Russia's proposal on a Syria draft resolution was not taken into account by the other members of the UN Security Council. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239904/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239904/cs/1/ A mayor of a Philippines town was Saturday shot at by motorcycle-borne gunmen, police said. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239902/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:30:07 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239902/cs/1/ Actor Daniel Radcliffe endured an awkward moment during a TV interview when a woman fan got down on one knee and asked him to marry her. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239900/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:30:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203239900/cs/1/ Actor Michael Fassbender has said he struggles to maintain relationships because he always puts his career first. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203237579/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203237579/cs/1/ Singer Katy Perry has found support in her ex-boyfriend after her marriage broke down. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203236875/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:50:01 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203236875/cs/1/ The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has opened its 29th branch in Egypt, it was announced Saturday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203232534/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:20:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203232534/cs/1/ Britain will send a nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic to protect the Falkland Islands from the threat of Argentine military action, Daily Mail reported Saturday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231930/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:10:13 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231930/cs/1/ Indonesian twin sisters were reunited 29 years after they were separated at birth but ended up living just 25 miles apart in Sweden, Daily Mail reported Saturday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231924/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:10:08 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231924/cs/1/ Israel is planning to attack Iran "within months", the Daily Mail reported Saturday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231922/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:10:06 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231922/cs/1/ A man in southwest China has been detained for allegedly drowning his two-year-old stepdaughter in a washing machine to collect life insurance payouts. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231176/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:03 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231176/cs/1/ Iran will stop its oil exports to Europe, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said Saturday. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231152/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203231152/cs/1/ A private in the U.S. Army is to face a court martial after leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks. http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203227892/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:42:46 -0500 Japan Herald.com http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203227892/cs/1/ By bluntly using its veto power to block a United Nations resolution urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, Russia has shown a willingness to defy the West at a scale rarely seen since ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250463/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:17 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250463/ Militants from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) patrol the creeks of Bonny river near the LNG plant in Bonny on the oil rich Niger delta region July 18, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250465/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:07 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250465/ A woman holding an umbrella walks on the main street near blocked tramcars in central Sarajevo during snowfall February 4, 2012. The Serbian government has so far declared a state of emergency in 19 ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250422/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:02:01 -0500 Globe and Mail http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250422/ MANILA, Philippines -; Abu Sayyaf commander Umbra Jumdail had deviated from the brutal image of his al-Qaida-linked militant group by playing doctor to poor Filipino villagers, whose backing he ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250428/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:59:38 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250428/ Indianapolis was once called Naptown and India-No-Place for a reason.Native son Kurt Vonnegut Jr. referred to it in 1970 as "the 500-mile speedway race, and then 364 days of miniature golf, and ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250468/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:59 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250468/ TEHRAN, Iran -- A Republican Guard commander warns Iran will target any country where an attack against it is staged.Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard, Iran's ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250469/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:55 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250469/ RABAT, Morocco -- Moroccan police have arrested three suspects accused of planning to carry out attacks on the security of the state.The MAP news agency, citing a statement from the interior ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250471/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:53 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250471/ SOFIA, Bulgaria -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Sunday for "friends of democratic Syria" to unite and rally against President Bashar Assad's regime, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250470/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:51 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250470/ DOHA, Qatar -- An aide to the Palestinian President says talks are under way between him and the head of rival Hamas over efforts to move along a reconciliation pact.Abbas aide Azzam al-Ahmed told ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250473/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:48 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250473/ BEIRUT -- The commander of a force of rebel Syrian soldiers says they have no choice now but to fight to free the country of President Bashar Assad's regime after Russia and China vetoed a ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250472/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:46 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250472/ ISTANBUL -- For adversaries in a long-distance spat, they made an odd couple. Turkey's leader, a brash visionary who propelled his country to regional prominence, tangled with an American ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250474/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:42 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250474/ A band consisting of former Soviet paratroopers performs a song lambasting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a massive protest against Putin's rule in Moscow, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250403/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:55:38 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250403/ Syria's opposition has appealed for international backing, a day after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at pressuring President Bashar Assad to end his bloody ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250479/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:52:55 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250479/ Volleys of tear gas left a white cloud over Cairo's Tahrir Square and streets surrounding Egypt's Interior Ministry, in the fourth day of clashes between security forces and rock-throwing ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250448/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:38:26 -0500 Belfast Telegraph http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250448/ Protesters stand in line to prevent their compatriots from throwing stones at riot police during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo February 4, ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250342/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:29:58 -0500 Reuters http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250342/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It does not guarantee him re-election in November, but it is an advantage President Barack Obama is likely to carry into the fall: a broad base of supporters who have given ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250461/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:29:55 -0500 Reuters http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250461/ Protesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army threw stones at police guarding the Egyptian interior ministry on Sunday and were forced back with ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250466/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:27:09 -0500 The Guardian http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250466/ William Hague has described the Syrian regime as "doomed" and "murdering" and warned that the country is moving closer to an all-out civil war following the dramatic collapse of ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250467/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:27:03 -0500 The Guardian http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250467/ Across Eastern Europe, thousands of people were digging themselves out from heavy snow that followed a weeklong cold snap that has killed hundreds. More than 100 remote Bosnian villages are cut off ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250475/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:22:43 -0500 USA Today http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250475/   http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250237/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:19:24 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250237/ KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle in a police parking lot next to a civilian area in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, five of them police, in the ... http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250236/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:07:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.japanherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/203250236/